When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.